{"id":391,"date":"2011-04-07T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/nouvelle-france\/"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T14:28:52","slug":"other-colonial-powers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/colonies-and-empires\/other-colonial-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Colonial Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, in 1492, many European powers sought to take possession of the continent\u2019s land and its riches. While the Spanish and the Portuguese quickly succeeded in taking exclusive ownership of the territories of South America, the French, the English, the Dutch and the Swedes were forced to divide up the northern part of the continent.<\/p>\n

View of New Amsterdam in 1664<\/strong>
Johannes Vingboons. Nationaal Archief, The Netherlands, 4.VELH 619.14<\/div>\">\"View<\/a>

View of New Amsterdam in 1664<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

This article proposes a panorama of the European colonies established in North America that the French had to deal with and indeed, compete with. It takes us from the shores of Florida, where the Spanish attempted to settle from the early 16th<\/sup> century, to Carolina and Georgia, two colonies founded by the British 200\u00a0years later. It brings us to the colony of New Amsterdam (today New York), founded by the Dutch in 1614; Plymouth, where the Mayflower<\/em> pilgrims landed six years later, and then New Sweden, established in 1638.<\/p>\n

The author sketches a portrait of communities that were established with sometimes identical, yet often different objectives and means. This study thus allows readers to discover a multitude of human adventures, both individual and collective, that encountered success, but also failure. It highlights as well the specific characteristics of each of these settlements that in many respects contrast with those of New France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, in 1492, many European powers sought to take possession of the continent\u2019s land and its riches. While the Spanish and the Portuguese quickly succeeded in taking exclusive ownership of the territories of South America, the French, the English, the Dutch and the Swedes were forced to divide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":298,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions\/3354"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}